Pakistan’s chaotic situation has become that much more confused with the announcement that Musharraf is to be impeached ‘in principle’ by the Pakistani parliament led by the PPP and PML(N). However this is by no means a certainty; in Pakistan’s fluid political scene, such announcements amount to very little until the event actually comes to pass. We only have to look at the promise made by both the PML(N) and PPP to restore the judges deposed by Musharraf and see that months have passed by yet the Chief Justice and his fellow judges have still not been restored.

Pakistan’s problems are increasingly becoming critical and dire; it’s economy is collapsing; price inflation is out of control and it has American and NATO troops on it’s Western flank carrying out cross border raids and killing Pakistanis on their own soil with impunity whilst threatening to invade further. In both Balochistan and NWFP a situation has been created by following American orders where the people are fighting the Pakistan army in armed rebellion. Whether Musharraf is removed or not is besides the point; the removal of one man is not going to change much. As Prime Minister Syed Yousef Raza Gillani demonstrated when visiting Washington recently, there are plenty of other pliant and subservient men ready to take Musharraf’s place in meeting American demands. Between the hands of Asif Ali Zardari and Nawaz Sharif there is negligible chance that Pakistan’s fortunes are about to change. The fact is that as America prepares another $15 billion of bribe money for the next 10 years the ruling elite of Pakistan are still going to play ball with the Americans. Pakistan’s myopic leaders have proven time after time that they are intellectually empty vassals who have no clue how to solve the problems Pakistan is facing. They are more concerned with new novel ways of increasing their personal wealth rather than doing anything to remove the poverty that afflict’s most of Pakistan’s people.

Pakistan’s situation cannot change under the current political system; indeed as we approach Pakistan’s 61st anniversary there is very little to celebrate.  The years gone by only serve to prove that both military and democratic rule have failed to even grasp let alone solve Pakistan’s problems. In recent years these have multiplied as Pakistan’s rulers have blindly applied Western solutions. Wholesale privatisation of state resources and the entry of Western multinationals into Pakistan’s economy have brutally demonstrated to the ordinary person in Pakistan the failure of Capitalism. In yesteryears gone by the application of socialism also failed to deal with the economic problems. Cheap nationalism liberally used by successive rulers as an ideological substitute for the strong foundation of Pakistan has failed to prevent the poor state of internal affairs in the provinces which today leave Pakistan in such a perilous position. With vested interests such as feudals and rich industrialists sitting in Parliament along with a top tier of crony officers in the army the fact is that Pakistan’s current status quo suits all of these people just fine. Real deliverance can only come with the removal of this corrupt system and the re-establishment of the Khilafah. There remains no other way.